"John Hansen" <john@geeknet.com.au> writes:
> Might it be worth while protecting the postmaster from an OOM Kill on
> Linux by setting /proc/{pid}/oom_adj to -17 ?
> (Described vaguely in mm/oom_kill.c)
(a) wouldn't that require root privilege? (b) how would we determine
whether we are on a system to which this applies? (c) is it actually
documented in a way that makes you think it'll be a permanently
supported feature (ie, somewhere outside the source code)?
regards, tom lane
